单词 | empirical self |
释义 | > as lemmasempirical self empirical self n. [perhaps after German empirisches Selbst (1794 or earlier); compare empirical ego n.] chiefly Philosophy and Psychology that aspect of the self knowable by experience; the conscious self (frequently contrasted with a higher or transcendental self beyond ordinary knowledge or awareness). ΚΠ a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 1 I have too much confounded with that complexus of visual images, cycles or customs of sensations..which make up our empirical self. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 291 The Empirical Self of each of us is all that he is tempted to call by the name of me. 1963 R. P. Wolff Kant's Theory Mental Activ. i. ii. 144 Only the empirical self is knowable. 2005 Gender & Society 19 348 Knowledge of self means knowing that the empirical self, the self who is attached to meeting the expectations of others, is also illusory. In contrast to the empirical self is the awakened self, the self who possesses Buddha nature. < as lemmas |
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